Fwd: DeLillo comments

[Lawrence Bryan]

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From: Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.org>
Date: April 29, 2007 7:38:25 PM PDT
To: "John BAILEY" <JBAILEY at theage.com.au>
Subject: Re: DeLillo comments


I'm sort of relieved to hear the comments about DeLillo. I just  
thought there was something wrong with me that I have yet to finish  
any of his books.

Never tried any Murakami. I'll put it on my list.

When I was on this list some years ago I got a lot of leads to  
various authors to look at. There was one novel I started and got  
interested in but for some reason, I no longer recall, never  
finished. Now I can't remember the author or the book title. It  
started with a white horse roaming around a city someplace and that's  
about all I remember. Does that ring a bell with anyone? Halperin or  
something like that seems to be associated with it in my mind. Anyone?

Lawrence

On Apr 29, 2007, at 5:51 PM, John BAILEY wrote:

Murakami and Pynchon, apples and oranges. They're two of my favourite
authors - probably my two favourite authors - but I agree that there's
rarely a reason to use their names in the same sentence. If you don't
like what M does with Wind-Up Bird, you probably won't like anything
else he's written.

And Delillo just comes across as smug, to me.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Keith
Sent: Monday, 30 April 2007 9:37 AM
To: Pynchon List
Subject: Re: Richard Morgan interview

I have the same reaction to Murakami that I have to DeLillo. I want to
like them, but about a third (or less) of the way in I'm feeling
disappointed and anxious for the story to end, so I can read something
by an author who fully delivers. If I want something substantive, but
"lighter," I'd rather read Philip Dick, or Borges, or Saramago, or
Marquez, or Calvino, or.....


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